[Nfb-krafters-korner] rag rugs

Sat Apr 3 04:54:12 UTC 2010

Hi Carol, 
   This is great!  The Great Northern site is the type of companies that I'd like to hear about. If anyone knows more sites like this I'd like to know about them.  I used to get dance/costume (glitzy) material in lots from a specialty fabric place in Minnesota called Rubensten & Ziff, but haven't ordered from them in a long time.  Not doing troupe work any longer. I'm looking for good buys from companies that sell bolted material or mill ends wholesale. Can't find them anymore. Had one in upstate New York and Levine and Sons in PA, but they're all gone. I know there's some down around Boone, North Carolina, but I can't find them.   
   Carol, JoAnn's Fabric sells a Simplicity Rotary cutting machine for cutting fabric into strips from 1/2" to 2" or 3" wide.  It sells for $60, but you could watch for a 50% off coupon and that would do the trick. 
   I looked at Great Northern site and I love that selvage edge rag rug they got on display. Would love to know how to do that. I think you should teach one of these techiques as a class.  Great Northern's rolls of  cotton rag fabric look pretty. I can just imagine how they'd work up. Thanks 
   Audrey Wellner
   Secretary, Krafters Korners

--- On Fri, 4/2/10, Carol Osmar <osmarc at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

From: Carol Osmar <osmarc at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] rag rugs
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Date: Friday, April 2, 2010, 8:55 PM

Hi Carolyn annd Joyce,  The type of rag rugs I make are made from new fabric, not old rags.  I purchase the fabric from a place called Great Northern weaving.  They are here in michigan but also have a web site.  It is the end of the fabricc that is used for making things like sheets.  It is in a roll that very in with from an inch to a foot or more.  Three inches is about the widest strip you would want to use for crocheted rugs.  So if you buy the wider pieces you would have to cut it.  My husband has been working on a easier way to cut it but he hasn't made it yet.  On the site they say the with so you would be wise to choose the thinner strips.

The first place I saw it was at Dolliewood.  If you haven't heard of it, it is a theme park in Tennessee owned by Dollie Partin.  I am sure you could get this type of fabric remnents at other places too.

You would need a size Q crochet hook.  The rugs are made with single crochet.  The hardest part of making them is increasing evenly around the rounded ends of the oval so the rug lays flat.  At About.com you can find instructions crocheting anything in an oval.

I have just given you the basic idea here.  I would be happy to help you more if you are interested.  I think you should give it a try.

Carol
----- Original Message ----- From: "Carolyn Lapp" <lappland at bellsouth.net>
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Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 1:50 AM
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> hi carol,
> thank you so much for responding to my post. i have never made a rag rug and would love to try crocheting one. i would need a list of necessary supplies and easy to follow instructions. i have been crocheting simple items since i was 12 years old and am always looking for new things to make. i would appreciate any help you could give me. thanks again and take care.
> carolyn
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>> Carolyn, I crochet rag rugs.  Is there something specific you want to know?
>> Carol- Original Message ----- From: "Carolyn Lapp" <lappland at bellsouth.net>
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>> 
>>> does anyone know how to crochet a rag rug?
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "eileen scrivani" <etscrivani at verizon.net>
>>> To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 6:51 PM
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>>>> Hi Susan,
>>>> 
>>>> When you talk about knitted coil rugs, are you making them out of i-cord? When I was a kid I used to make doll rugs out of the tubes that would come off of what was called horse reins or a knitting nancy.  Now a days its called i-cord.
>>>> 
>>>> In fact the class on friday that will teach making a double knitted pouch will also teach how to make i-cord.
>>>> 
>>>> Eileen
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan Roe" <dogwoodfarm at verizon.net>
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>>>> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 11:16 PM
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>>>> 
>>>>> I have done knitted coiled rugs that you could either leave as a single tube and stitch in the coil, or you could take the tubes, braide them together and then stitch them into the coil.  I'd be interested in a rag rug class.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Susan
>>>>> dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marianne" <mdenning at cinci.rr.com>
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>>>>> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 7:07 PM
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>>>>> 
>>>>>> My sons have rented their first office space.  It is in an old warehouse and they ripped up all the flooring this weekend and found a distressed wood floor under everything else.  I would like to make a simple rag rug to put on the floor and understand that I need to braid long strips of fabric and then coil it to make the rug.  Has anyone made a rag rug before?  Would anyone be interested in teaching such a class and would others be intersted in learning to make rag rugs?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I guess this also goes along with the Friday question even though I had never thought of it before this weekend.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Marianne
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